WarHawk by Archie Goodwin and Alex Toth.
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
from Savage Combat Tales # 2.
Archie Goodwin
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Creepy Beginnings
BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The early issues of Warren's CREEPY mag in the mid-sixties tried hard to achieve the tongue-in-cheek feel the EC's had presented a decade earlier with a horror host, humorous answers to letters and, beginning in the Archie Goodwin-edited issues, a Creepy Fan Club Page. A regular feature was scary art sent in by readers, Here, from 1965 and '66, are two examples by a fan named Frank Brunner...
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A Drunken Imp and Blazing Chimps in "Hop-Frog!"
Again With the Comics (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here's another Halloween reprint; a true classic revenge tale by Edgar Allan Poe, ably adapted by two classic comics creators! Horrifically re-presented for your enjoyment, this particular Poe tale is a favorite of mine. If you like seeing blackguards get their comeuppance, you're gonna love "Hop Frog!": "Hop-Frog!" Adapted from the Edgar A. Poe short Story by Archie Goodwin...
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The Roots of Genius
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the first Nero Wolfe novel. Rex Stout’s Fer-de-Lance, in which he introduced that “Falstaff of detectives,” Montenegro-born Wolfe, and his more handsome and significantly more energetic associate, Archie Goodwin, was published by Farrar & Rinehart on October 24, 1934. It’s a complicated novel spinning out from the disappearance...
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RIP George Tuska.
The Johnny Bacardi Show (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Above, four pages (actually, the last four- apologies if I've spoiled a FORTY YEAR OLD COMIC STORY) from Iron Man #11 , cover dated March of 1969, which featured the resolution of a two-part thriller that pitted the Armored Avenger against the Mandarin yet again. Script by the great Archie Goodwin, inks by the great Johnny Craig...and pencil art by the late GEORGE TUSKA , who has died...
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Friday among the Cultists
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... it didn't sell in big numbers and ran two years or less. Let me walk you through a test case. Take Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson's Manhunter. It started as a revival of a Golden-Age B-lister, an obscure little feature from Joe Simon and Jack Kirby that ran in Adventure Comics during the 1940s. The '40s Adventure Comics version would be called a moderate success, I guess, though...
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Your Daily Horror: Creepy Archives
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The EC Comics classic, Creepy, has been “remastered” and collected into a series of Creepy Archives by Dark Horse Comics! We’ve got Creepy Archives #1-4 in stock, and you can pre-order #5 and #6 and get 20% off! Pulpy, smart, and scary, the stories in Creepy constituted some of the best short-form horror fiction ever told [...]
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Of Orchids and Oratory
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... scholarly presentations, a Sunday brunch, and a quiz based on Rex Stout’s first Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin mystery, (1934).The naming of the 2009 Nero Award winner will take place during the Black Orchid Banquet, scheduled for Saturday, December 5. If you don’t remember the names of the three nominees, .